About


My name is Júlia Káčerová, and I am a Slovak visual artist (*2000) working primarily with sculpture, objects, and installations.
My creative process does not usually begin with a predefined theme. Instead, it develops as an intuitive search for both form and meaning, in which the material itself plays an active role in shaping the work. The process of making thus becomes a personal dialogue with the possibilities of matter and space. The outcome of my work remains open to departures from the initial intention, to coincidence, and to the inherent qualities of the material.
My artistic practice explores the tension between solidity and fragility, between stability and the processes of gradual transformation. Each work carries within it a story and a lived experience. The materiality and formal language of my work are rooted in natural sources, as I often explore the relationship between natural structures and human intervention in the landscape. I work at the intersection of geometric and organic forms that evoke nests, embryonic forms, or structural shapes—symbols of birth, transformation, and protection. For me, these forms represent not only biological or natural structures, but also a way of thinking about the relationships between different modes of existence and the fragile balance between human activity and broader ecological systems.
My recent work has shifted towards themes of stability, burnout, and mental fragility. It is not only an experimental material investigation, but also a record of lived personal and global struggles and forms of pain, transformed into visual form.
I am interested in understanding artistic practice not only as the creation of objects, but as a process embedded within a network of material, ecological, and philosophical relationships.
Education
2020/21 - present
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, SK
Studio of Free Sculpture (Mgr. art. Štefan Papčo, ArtD., Mgr. art. Matej Gavula)
2022/23
Académie royale des Beaux-Arts – École supérieure des Arts, Brussels, BE
Sculpture
2019/20
Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, CZ
Scenography for Alternative and Puppet Theatre
2015 – 2019
Josef Vydra School of Applied Arts, Bratislava, SK
Promotional and Applied Art
2020/21 - súčasnosť
Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, Bratislava, SK
Ateliér volného sochárstva, sochárstva
(Mgr. art. Štefan Papčo, ArtD., Mgr. art. Matej Gavula)
2022/23
Académie royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts, Brussels, BE
Sculpture
2019/20
Divadelná akademie múzických umení, Praha, CZ
Scénografie alternativního a loutkového divadla
2015 – 2019
Škola úžitkového výtvarníctva Josefa Vydru, Bratislava, SK
Propagačné výtvarníctvo
Exhibitions
2026 — Festival Kvantum, Nástupište 1 – 12, Pažite - Podhradie, SK, group exhibition
— DIPLOM 2026, Galéria Umelka, Bratislava, SK, group exhibition
—TUF, RARE cultural space, Bratislava, SK, group exhibition
— Palma Live, Bratislava, SK, group exhibition
2025 — Prepletené, Dunajčík, Bratislava, SK, solo exhibition
— Prepletené, Staromestské kultúrne centrá, Zichyho palác - nádvorie, Bratislava, SK, solo exhibition
— Oživotvorenie, festival Hradby Samoty, Jablonica, SK, group exhibition
— Festival Echoterra, Borinka - Kameňolom Prepadlé, SK, group exhibition
— Socha v meste X.: Chcem počuť ako sadá prach, Turčianska galéria, Martin, SK, group exhibition
— Mara50/ Hladina horizontu - horizont hladiny, Liptovská galéria P. M. Bohúňa, Liptovský Mikuláš, SK, group exhibition
2024 — Nests, Staromestská galéria Zichy, Bratislava, SK, solo exhibition
— Some Art and Some Random Dining Chairs, OC Prior, Bratislava, group exhibition
2020 — Bratislava Design Week´, Bratislava, SK, group exhibition
Research stays, residencies / Výskumné pobyty, rezidencie
2026 — Graduate Internship E+: Oblikovna likovna radionica Plemenitaš, Croatia
2025 — Artistic residency: Prehistoricsoul LAB, Bali - Denpasar, Indonesia
2024 — Research stay: The Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), China
2021 — Research stay: The Bigal River Biological Reserve, NP Sumaco, Ecuador